Andrei Neculau

Getting close to writing a sum-up of the first period/module/3 months at KTH..

• KTH EMIS 1.1 Processes for IT Production - Practical Assignment
• KTH EMIS 1.1 Enterprise Computing and ERP Systems - Group Project
• KTH EMIS 1.1 Enterprise Computing and ERP Systems - Research Paper Evaluation
• KTH EMIS 1.1 Enterprise Computing and ERP Systems - Exam

I’m having a group-project assignment at KTH (Enterprise and ERP Systems, with Paul Johannesson), and even though we handled the communication quite ok, using Gmail’s conversation-grouping feature is not good enough for me.

It’s hard to keep track of file changes, of ideas, etc… etc… etc..

Yesterday I’ve been trying to find the right collaboration tool, but the perfect one was in the Backcamp - Campfire suite, which is not free. Thus, not right for students I’d say.

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Very nice orchestra concert organized yearly by KTH’s Academic Orchestra in the Valhallavägen campus,)

I recommend it to everyone. Pity it was too cold to stay until the end. Anja and I missed the fireworks as well, but it’s ok.. New Year’s eve has enough fireworks to last one year

Today, I found out how you can book a room It’s all done through Daisy.

You need to go Timetable -> Rooms.

You can easily see the status of the rooms’ booking, and then decide on a time+room slot and click “Add booking” at the bottom.

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Ok.. things tend to get messy at DSV/ICT/IT University/KTH+SU/or whatever else you want to call it.

So I got one kth.se , one dsv.su.se, one fc.dsv.su.se email account.

This is my setup currently. Follow, if you think it’s in your interest.

• FirstClass can be setup to redirect your messages - just go to preferences
  My setup: forward to dsv.su.se
• DSV is POP3 enabled, therefore you can setup your Gmail to import messages
  My setup: Gmail imports through POP3 from DSV
• KTH doesn’t have POP3 enabled, nor forwarding at the moment, but you can email them and ask for forwarding
  My setup: KTH forwards to Gmail
• Gmail: everything from kth.se , dsv.su.se and fc.dsv.su.se gets labeled with @kth.se

Interesting conversation with the IT people follows:

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It’s common that universities give you also some web-space along with your E-mail address. Why? To host your projects, presentations, individual research/projects, etc.

You can publish both in private and public mode. Basically you get a UNIX shell account.

The basic information, as it was with my situation, is as follows:

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KTH has just switched to Microsoft Exchange for its E-mail solution.

And at the Helpdesk so far they didn’t know if it’s possible to use a desktop client, or to forward your messages.

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* Side-motto: should we or should we not pay attention to the course? I’m writing this during my first course… not good! Don’t do like me!

Simple steps:

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So, yeah.. after clearing my head, and after moving all my previous posts to a new series called Induction at KTH Kista, I’m now trying to get a bit more perspective on the academic life.

This module (half of one regular semester) I’m doing has two courses for my programme - Processed for IT production + Enterprise computing and ERP systems. First one with Mira, a Finnish lady who traveled the world and seems very much open-minded and down to Earth, and the second one with Paul, a person that goes well under the “the IT researcher” category.

Both courses seem quite interesting so far, and they made me feel comfortable, which was really nice in order to balance things.

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